from the comments of:
http://www.whenmonkeysattack.com/blog/2009/08/16/the-big-tent-was-pitched-long-ago/
- Horatio Weisfeld Says:
08/17/09 at 2:08 pmIf memory serves me:
In the mid-late 70s, Supersnipe’s art gallery (whatever they called it) was a block or two west of Supersnipe comic store (mid-eighties/east side/Manhattan). The art gallery was small, and the one thing I remember was that they had the Frazetta painting (The Red Knight?) with the guy on his horse, pointing his sword down at the viewer, and I had never seen a Frazetta original, so this blew my kid mind (I still remember that they were asking $5,000 for it). It was common knowledge that Lucas (Who I think was in school with Supersnipe owner Ed Summer) was an investor in the place, as the people who ran the joint would talk about it (Summer is listed as associate producer on the first Conan movie). Later, they moved the gallery a block or two east, around the corner from the Supersnipe comic store (at which point the gallery had the FF Blazing Combat painting with the cigar chomping American sticking his bayonet through the Kraut). At some point I heard that the place got robbed – then shut down.
So it sounds like GL didn't get out of it.